Hi,
Is it possible to disable the submission of a new manuscript in OJS version 2.4.6.0. We have updated our OJS 2.4.6.0 to the new version of OJS 3.x and are moving the journal to a different server. Since we cannot transfer the manuscripts that are in the review process to the new server, we would like to edit the existing manuscripts in the old OJS. On the old OJS site, I should disable the submission of new manuscripts and use the New Submission link to add the redirection on the new OJS site. Is this possible?
Regards,
Jože
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Hi @aas,
If you’re keeping your OJS 2 site alive (be aware that OJS 2 is no longer supported, so doesn’t receive security updates, so that could make your site vulnerable), you could disable user registration: https://docs.pkp.sfu.ca/learning-ojs-2/en/step_four_management#41-access-and-security-settings and edit section policies, so that only Editors/Section editors can submit: https://docs.pkp.sfu.ca/learning-ojs-2/en/journal_sections
This would at least prevent new submissions from unaware users.
-Roger
PKP Team
Hi @rcgillis,
Thank you very much for the quick reply. We have already done the first part and will also set up the sections as you suggest. Will this affect the review process for manuscripts that are still in progress?
However, we are aware that OJS 2 is no longer supported, but we see no other solution than to complete the procedures on OJS 2, since we cannot migrate them to the new OJS platform.
Jože
Hi @aas,
I don’t think it should affect ones that are already in the workflow - just prevent new submissions.
Thank you for elaborating that you are aware that OJS 2 is unsupported - and I understand that it sometimes can be complicated to migrate everything - just wanted to make sure you were informed.
Best regards,
Roger
PKP Team
Hi, @rcgillis
Again, thank you very much for your response.
We have additionally changed the notification that appears when the author click on New Submission, namely: Acta agriculturae Slovenica will soon update its own website. Please submit your new articles to the new website: https://journals.uni-lj.si/aas. We have changed this in the atuhor.xml file located in the locale/en_US folder. The text was displayed, but the last part, where there is only the link, was not. Apparently it is not possible to display links on this site. Could there be something wrong with the code?
Best regards,
Jože
Hi @aas,
I don’t think the locale files like those contained in the locale/en_US folder support HTML so you’d have to hard code it into the .tpl file that displays that particular piece of text.
-Roger
PKP Team
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I believe they could obtain the desired output by embedding the anchor in CDATA (character data) encoding in the XML. Here is an example of a message key from the locale.xml file from OJS 2.4.8:
<message key="about.aboutOJSJournal"><![CDATA[This journal uses Open Journal Systems {$ojsVersion}, which is open source journal management and publishing software developed, supported, and freely distributed by the <a href="http://pkp.sfu.ca/">Public Knowledge Project</a> under the GNU General Public License.]]></message>
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It would be good to be able to disable all actions by people other than editors. Disabling submissions does not prevent reviewers from uploading reports or prevent authors from submitting new versions.
As well as helping migration between servers, this would allow editors to test the system after an upgrade and fix problems even if that means restoring the database and repeating the upgrade process.
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